Internet access has been quite sporadic since I've been in Korea, since our training facility doesn't have in-room access and the computer lab contains just 3-4 PCs that are working. I hope this changes once we get to our camps, as we've been told that they have computer labs and possibly in-room LAN connections.
The last two days have been filled with orientation sessions led by mostly Canadian teachers here in the Jellanam-do province. Today, we travel to one of the camps, Damyang, which is just 20 miles north of our current location near Gwangju. This is the same camp to which I've been assigned, so I'll get a sneak preview. We'll be doing demonstrations of our assigned teaching sections to the orientation folks so that they can give us feed back. For the elementary camp, I'll be teaching a section called "Home Life" which includes dialogue and vocabulary on family members, jobs around the home, and rooms of the house. Two of our activities will be creating a family tree and student's design of their dream room. I'll be teaching this same 3-hour section twice a day for six days, each time to 14 students. I suspect I'll be a little shaky the first few sessions, pretty smooth the next couple of days, and deadly dull for the final days. We will be assigned to a Korean co-teacher who speaks English, but it's really our responsibility to run the show.
During the second camp, for middle schoolers (who I understand are as old as 17), I do not have a course assignment, but will be filling the role of activities coordinator, which means I will organize and be the host for daily evening events - quizzes, challenges, mini-Olympics and more. Although I won't be as busy during the school day, I'll have plenty on my hands as I recruit other teachers and explain the rules and schedule for our evening events.
It's a little daunting right now, but we still have a few days before camp begins . . .
The last two days have been filled with orientation sessions led by mostly Canadian teachers here in the Jellanam-do province. Today, we travel to one of the camps, Damyang, which is just 20 miles north of our current location near Gwangju. This is the same camp to which I've been assigned, so I'll get a sneak preview. We'll be doing demonstrations of our assigned teaching sections to the orientation folks so that they can give us feed back. For the elementary camp, I'll be teaching a section called "Home Life" which includes dialogue and vocabulary on family members, jobs around the home, and rooms of the house. Two of our activities will be creating a family tree and student's design of their dream room. I'll be teaching this same 3-hour section twice a day for six days, each time to 14 students. I suspect I'll be a little shaky the first few sessions, pretty smooth the next couple of days, and deadly dull for the final days. We will be assigned to a Korean co-teacher who speaks English, but it's really our responsibility to run the show.
During the second camp, for middle schoolers (who I understand are as old as 17), I do not have a course assignment, but will be filling the role of activities coordinator, which means I will organize and be the host for daily evening events - quizzes, challenges, mini-Olympics and more. Although I won't be as busy during the school day, I'll have plenty on my hands as I recruit other teachers and explain the rules and schedule for our evening events.
It's a little daunting right now, but we still have a few days before camp begins . . .
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